Re: Saving 4k idle ram usage for zlib

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

Bob Koninckx wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 09:10, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
>
> > lør, 24.04.2004 kl. 08.36 skrev Bob Koninckx:
> >
> > > Depends on how much you can save :-) If you manage to save enough, so
> > > that you can build redboot (including networking support) on a system
> > > with lots of flash but only 26k of RAM (e.g. mpc555), I am certainly
> > > interested.
> >
> > The savings aren't going to come from a single place. 
> >
> > How about starting to accept the savings as they are found and then see
> > where we are at regular intervals
>
>
> Sounds like a good idea to me. Shouldn't it be best to make it a
> configuration option, like with CRC checksum tables ?

If something is never going to change, there's no problem marking it const. 
If it's initialised data it will be occupying space in Flash anyway - the 
question is only whether it occupies space in RAM as well.

Øyvind, please do feel free to submit a patch to do this. I doubt there 
would be any problem accepting it.

Jifl
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